Place · Semitic

SU-KI-RI-TA

Sukrita (place name; Linear B su-ki-ri-ta)

Reading: Sukrita
Type: Place Candidate
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Phaistos
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: SU-KI-RI-TA

Commentary

PH Wa 32, a nodule. Linear B su-ki-ri-ta in the Knossos D series, Godart’s reading of this sealing (DMic II 303 n. 6); Greek Σύβριτα, a name Chadwick takes as not Greek (DMic II 303 n. 5). Gentilic SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA on HT Zb 158b.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SU-KI-RI-TA.

Ugaritics-g-r/s-g-r/ ‘to close, shut’ (DULAT 743); syllabic suGir ‘bolt’ (GlOS 2, 190)
Hebrewsāgarsāgar ‘shut, close’ (HALOT 742)
Linear Bsu-ki-ri-ta, the town, KN Da 1091, Db 1324, Db 1327, Df 1325, Dn 1092, Dv 5232